Quotes About Flexibility

But that's how life is. You never know how it's going to turn out, and you can't plan for everything. You just have to do your best dealing with things as they come and hope people forgive you when you make a mistake.

Flex organizations do more than enable their players to worm out of accountability through their might-be-state, might-be-private status; they supplant the state.

The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.

the 21st Century is really a terrible time to be a control freak.

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

Mies joka ei ole hankala on kuin soutuvene jossa ei ole hankaimia. Se menee minne vesi tahtoo ja vie.

Music has a lot in com­mon with math­e­mat­ics. But in music, two and two need not make four: they add up to what­ever you wish.

The more you can see options, the quicker you can regain a sense of control.

one condition: that she be allowed to work from home.

Forcing everyone into the office every day is an organizational SPoF.

Rather than demand whatever it takes, we ask, What will it take?

You just can't bring your A game to every situation. Knowing when to embrace Good Enough is what gives you the opportunity to be truly excellent when you need to be.

As Sir Richard Branson commented in his ode to working remotely: "To successfully work with other people, you have to trust each other. A big part of this is trusting people to get their work done wherever they are, without supervision."fn3

In thirty years' time, as technology moves forward even further, people are going to look back and wonder why offices ever existed. —RICHARD BRANSON, FOUNDER OF VIRGIN GROUP

Always keeping the door open to radical changes only invites chaos and second-guessing.

It doesn't matter how much you plan, you'll still get some stuff wrong anyway. Don't make things worse by overanalyzing and delaying before you even get going.

The same thing is true with weekday nights. If work can claim hours after 5:00 p.m., then life should be able to claim hours before 5:00 p.m. Balance, remember. Give and take.

Accept that better ideas aren't necessarily better if they arrive after the train has left the station. If they're so good, they can catch the next one.

Why don't we just call plans what they really are: guesses. Start referring to your business plans as business guesses, your financial plans as financial guesses, and your strategic plans as strategic guesses. Now you can stop worrying about them as much. They just aren't worth the stress.

Sometimes you need to say, "We're going in a new direction because that's what makes sense today.

Decide what you're going to do this week, not this year. Figure out the next most important thing and do that. Make decisions right before you do something, not far in advance.

Las empresas de software no se suelen plantear escribir libros. Los grupos de música no se suelen plantear filmar el proceso de grabación de canciones. Los fabricantes de coches no se suelen plantear vender carbón. Seguro que hay algo que tú podrías vender y que aún no te has planteado.

If you can't fit everything in within the time and budget allotted then don't expand the time and budget. Instead, pull back the scope. There's always time to add stuff later – later is eternal, now is fleeting.

If you still want people in the office every day, change that requirement to every afternoon instead. Then let your troops have their mornings to themselves.